目次

Key to symbols used; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Models of LanguageDevelopment: 1. The neogrammarian model; 2. The structuralist model oflanguage evolution; 3. The transformational-generative model oflanguage evolution; Part II. Language Contact: 4. The neogrammarianpostulates and dialect geography; 5. The social motivation of languagechange; 6. Contact between languages; 7. Language and prehistory;Further reading; References; Additional bibliography; Index.